Study Claims 40 Percent of UK 5G Mobile Connections are Really 4G
Study Claims 40 Percent of UK 5G Mobile Connections are Really 4G
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Study Claims 40 Percent of UK 5G Mobile Connections are Really 4G
Study Claims 40 Percent of UK 5G Mobile Connections are Really 4G
Posted by lobas
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Well yeah duh, that’s cos the 5G masts were just there to spread COVID, you can’t expect them to spread COVID and function as a phone network at the same time, come on
massive underinvestment in cellular infrastructure in the uk over the past 15 years.
It seems worse to me. Half the time my phone tells me I have 4G or 5G and I can’t even get a connection.
It might be O2 mind, who I can’t wait to leave when my contract runs out in a couple of months.
It is crap. And all because we wouldn’t let Huawei build it.
I grew up on the east cost of Scotland, lived in Edinburgh for a few years and moved to Amsterdam about 5 years ago. It’s wild how bad service is when I’m back in the UK by comparison. In the Netherlands I can travel by bike, car or train half way across the country and still have a solid 5G connection in a field in the middle of no where, but in the UK even just being in certain parts of cities has me almost entirely losing signal.
It’s probably because of [these kind of things](https://southlondon.co.uk/news/mitcham-residents-object-to-20m-mast-that-will-cast-a-shadow-over-their-protected-village-green/)
As someone who travels around a lot, I have wondered whether this was the reality of 5G as I haven’t really noticed a huge improvement in mobile internet performance between 4G (especially later versions of the tech) and 5G.
It’s something I *should* know more about really but this information doesn’t surprise me at all.
Frequently find that even though 4G reception is strong that data, calls and text simply don’t work which suggests severe overloading of individual masts I think.
When “5G” first came out I ran a speed test in and around London and was getting over 100Mbps easily. At the time I remember thinking how impressed I was.
Since then I struggle to get more than 5Mbps – and that’s on a good day. The overall experience of the network is now far worse than in the days when 5G wasn’t a thing.
The reality is the infrastructure hasn’t kept up with demand. Anyone being sold a 5G contract is being sold a lie and it’s about time the industry is held to account.
I thought it was an EE thing so I switched to O2 last year (big mistake!). It’s not a provider thing – they are all guilty of this.
It took years before broadband providers had to publish minimum expected speeds, I don’t understand why network providers don’t have to do to the same?
The U.K. service is dog shit. I’ve lived in west London, Oxfordshire and Hampshire and I’ll be lucky to get 3 bars, usually I’m sitting at 1-2 bars and 4g. This is with EE, but they’re all equally shite from my experience.
My mother lives in a small city in Finland and some of my friends there are in the rural countryside and I always get full bars and 5g while over there. Hell, I’ve gone walking in the middle of the woods with nothing within a mile radius and it’s still 4 bars 5g.
It’s all a massive con
There’s no 5 G
The big phone gangsters raising the prices for nothing.
Ohhhhh and the other thing is Uk is at the bottom of the European list for internet speed and connectivity Eastern Europe is decades ahead of Uk in that respect.
In my local area, I literally never have a 5G connection.
Eh, half the time if I restrict my phone to 3G I get faster speeds than when it’s on 4G. Only really get 5G when I’m abroad, and that’s in mid Sussex.
You can drive through the middle of Mojave desert, or some interstate in the middle of nowhere and you’re still have 5G in the US.
Yet I was driving on the M4 from Heathrow and I couldn’t hear the person on the other end of the line.
And I won’t even pretend that the signal is perfect in the US when comapred to some European countries.
I have a shared O2/Vodafone mast on my road, visibly not 5g, been there for many years. Yet my work O2 phone is always showing 5g, while my personal Vodafone is always showing 4g, both get identical speeds on download tests.
No surprise really. Outer London here and we just got told we will be getting fibreoptic internet soon woohoo!
One of the biggest cons in telecom history in this country has been 5G.
I knew something was off when if first came out and new contract were practically forcing anybody renewing to have 5G in their new plan — no prices changes or anything, but with no way of opting-out and just staying on a 4G contract.
Conversely, I remember when 4G came out and there would be something like a £10 difference between old 3G contracts and new 4G ones.
My phone doesn’t have 5g, if it has 4g with2 or more bars, it’s fine.
If it’s 4g with 1 bar, might work might not.
3G? Doesn’t work. Still says 3G with 2 or 3 bars signal, but does not work.
I’ve suspected I’m being lied to for a while now
I went to Iceland earlier this year and had better 5G speed and strength in a cabin in the middle of nowhere than I get in London or Manchester city centre. Yet another example of the UK woefully lagging behind other first world countries due to poor decision making and under investment.
Feels like the data network has gone backwards. Really slow and patchy coverage. It’s embarrassing how much better it is in other countries.
Binning off Huawei was such an idiotic move, but ultimately this is the fate of a vassal state.